Kabataan Rep. Raymond V. Palatino said Comelec’s decision not to print machine-readable ballots equivalent to the number of actual voters, including those who have been registered last December 29, is “a deliberate act to disenfranchise the additional registrants during the special registration period.”

Migrante International and its party-list, Migrante Sectoral Party is not giving up on its goal to represent the migrant sector in Congress and was scheduled to file a petition on the Supreme Court to allow them to join the 2010 congressional bid.

Dr. Editha Burgos who chairs a human rights’ group Desaparecidos, an association of families, friends and sympathizers of the victims of the enforced disappearances, is currently on a European tour to talk about enforced disappearances in the country.

hank you, Mrs. Aquino, for your contribution to freeing all the political prisoners under the dictatorial regime of Marcos. Thank you Cory for your contribution to and participation in the ouster of the dictatorial regime and the dismantling and destruction of the repressive and anti-democratic martial rule of Marcos. We will continue to struggle for our country…